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THE IMAGE of the refugee has become horribly familiar. Masses of people seen trudging along endless roads, heading, like a slow-moving river, towards some phantom haven, feature almost daily in our newspapers and on our televisions. War against Iraq will undoubtedly unleash another exodus that will pour, sluggishly, into neighbouring countries, transforming great tracts of land, draining their substance and eating them clean.

Iconic photographs of refugees have been widely known since Eugene Smith and others captured images of local French populations fleeing Nazi tanks. Antoine de Saint- Exupéry wrote about the phenomenon in Flight to Arras, his